Although Identical Tentacles, Joan and the Rivers’ 2016 EP, has just three songs, it makes a strong case for the band as one of San Jose’s most inspired group of weirdo rockers. These guys got lost somewhere between the garage and the bar, sending dirty howls through the dead-end streets of the…
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Spiller might have started in Eugene, Oregon, but the band is made up of members from San Jose, Maui, Lake Tahoe and Hong Kong. A band made up of transplants and nomads, their sound is equally nomadic and exploratory, including elements of ’90s indie rock like Karate and Tortoise, swelling choruses of…
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Saxophonist Dave Koz has played with everyone from Ray Charles and Stevie Wonder, to Celine Dion, U2, and Burt Bacharach. And if you’ve ever wanted to get in on a little Koz-play, the City National Civic is the place for you this week. For the past past years, Koz has helped people…
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Before he went gold as a solo artist with 1998’s Thugged Out: The Albulation, Yukmouth was one half of The Luniz, the crew who dropped what is arguably the greatest weed-smoking anthem ever to come from the Bay Area (and there’ve been a lot): “I Got 5 On It.” Since then the…
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Riding a recent hot streak, Chuck Ragan comes to San Jose for a night of smoldering acoustic folk at the Ritz. Inspired equally by perseverance and perdition, the storied singer has managed to establish dual music careers: one in punk with his much beloved band Hot Water Music, and one in folk…
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Back in 1975, before punk was even a fully formed genre, a Cleveland band led by the singer and songwriter David Thomas were fusing garage rock with harsh, glitchy electronics, field recordings, pulsing dance music and avant garde passages of noise. Without Pere Ubu, there would be no Pixies, no Sonic Youth…
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If you missed your chance to pick up the two Lars Frederiksen and the Bastards albums when they were released around the turn of the millennium, you’re about the get a second chance. Both the 2001 debut and 2004 follow-up by the Rancid guitarist’s side band have long been out of print. That…
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While there are plenty of factors pulling Stephan Jenkins into the past, the Third Eye Blind frontman is doing his best to stay in the now.
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The last time we heard from mewithoutYou was in 2015, when the Philadelphia post-hardcore band released their sixth album, Pale Horses. Currently at work on the follow-up, before releasing any new material, the band will take a deep dive into their past, performing their first record, 2002’s [A->B] Life, in its entirety for…
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When I listen to This Will Destroy You I almost always get the same series of images in my head. An empty highway at night. Votive candles flickering in their colored glass cases. Distant lights on the horizon.
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![HARD RETURN: Philly band mewithoutYou come to The Ritz on their ‘[A->B] Life’ album anniversary tour.](https://activate.metroactive.com/files/2017/10/MUSIC-LEAD-MSV-1741-meweithoutYou-145x145.jpg)
